The government is making a big push for electric vehicles. The growth forecast is high and the policy is clear. However, the uptake will depend on the ability of the state governments to create charging infrastructure. The policy field was cleared last year. The ministry of power clarified in Apr 2018 that charging stations do […]

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it will invest $50 million in Indian renewable energy independent power producer Avaada Energy Private Limited. Avaada aims to use the capital to expand its solar energy generation capacity in India. The ADB and Avaada entered into an agreement which was signed by the chairman of the […]

Recognized as one the leading mining nations in the world Polish government has prepared ‘West Bengal Project’ that was discussed recently during Bengal Global Business Summit. Poland was partner country of the summit for a third time in a row. Poland looks for collaboration with both PSUs and the biggest private players. During a recent […]

India’s SpiceJet Ltd could benefit from cash-strapped Jet Airways being forced to ground planes, and the low-cost carrier is in talks with lessors to lease some of those aircraft, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Shares of SpiceJet rose as much as 7.2 percent on Wednesday in their biggest percentage gain […]

Indian companies are welcome to participate in Indonesia’s infrastructure projects, particularly in the Aceh province, as the island nation makes development a priority, a senior minister has said. Addressing a gathering of chief executives of the Indian companies at the 2nd India-Indonesia Infrastructure Forum (IIIF) in Jakarta, country’s Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar […]

Category: Roads

The State government, which has called tenders for the 22.12 km North-South arm — from Baptist Hospital on Ballari Road to Silk Board junction — of the elevated corridor project, is still undecided on how to clear the traffic mess at Hebbal flyover. The government, in an order on implementing the elevated corridor project issued […]

Only 101 km of the 28,532 km of National Highways newly laid in the country (NH) between April 2014 and March 2018 has been in the State. Of the 101 km, 29 km was constructed in 2014-15, 10 km in 2015-16, 45 km in 2016-17, and 17 km in 2017-18. Kerala is 27th among the […]

Shobha Karandlaje, MP, on Friday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to ask Navayuga Company to complete the pending widening work of National Highway 66 from Hejmady to Kundapur in Udupi district. Chairing the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee meeting here, Ms. Karandlaje said the construction of a flyover in Kundapur, a […]

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to file a report to ascertain whether the lack of foot overbridges for pedestrians was leading to an increase in the number pedestrian deaths. A Division Bench of Justices N. Kirubakaran and S. S. Sundar sought data […]

Notwithstanding Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari’s promise that four-laning of National Highway 75 between Addahole and BC Road (65 km) in Dakshina Kannada would be hastened, work has not picked up pace even a month after the assurance. Residents of adjoining areas are more concerned about the incomplete work with debris of […]

The highway patrol forces will now get special powers to take preventive and punitive action against motorists found violating traffic rules on the State and national highways in Maharashtra. The Home Department will soon make changes in existing regulations to empower 209 officers working under the Additional Director General (Traffic) for enforcing laws. The special […]

Over 60 km of National Highway (NH) corridors under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in the State is to be subjected to periodic renewal, improvements, strengthening, and geometrical corrections to ensure a cosy ride for motorists. While 10 km of the corridors on National Highway (NH) 66 is to be subjected to […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to build seven minor bridges on the service lanes along Tiruchi-Chennai Bypass Road meeting the need of residents ever since the highway was made four-lane nearly a decade back. Absence of service lanes across canals and drains had left service lanes disjointed at many places. […]

Visakhapatnam district witnessed a gruesome road accident in the recent times, when three teenagers on a bike were hit by a lorry and were dragged on NH-16 for about three km at S Rayavaram area, on February 12. The accident has once again brought to light about the dangerous dark spots on NH-16 between Anakapalle […]

The superstructure of the railway underbridge (RuB) on the carriageway towards Mangaluru on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru NH 75 at Padil is almost ready but its commissioning is being delayed, irking road users. Work on the RuB commenced in December 2017 after closing the old RuB on the NH. This came after the National Highways Authority of […]

Work on widening of the 134-km-long Tiruchi-Chidambaram National Highway will begin by the end of March. Sources in National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the executing agency, say site clearing works on Tiruchi-Kallagam section of the highway is underway now. The project is being executed in three packages: Tiruchi-Kallagam, Kallagam-Meensuritti and Meensurritti-Chidambaram sections. It is […]

Absence of high mast lights at the junction on Nasiyanur Bypass Road on the Salem – Cochin National Highway 544 is posing threat to road users during night hours. Many spots on the road from Vijayamangalam toll plaza to Lakshmi Nagar in Bhavani have been identified as accident prone as over 50% of the accidents […]

The government is making a big push for electric vehicles. The growth forecast is high and the policy is clear. However, the uptake will depend on the ability of the state governments to create charging infrastructure. The policy field was cleared last year. The ministry of power clarified in Apr 2018 that charging stations do […]